Sabbath and Streaming Struggles

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Hello. Hello. We're in the room. We are.
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I'm in a different room today. New
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setup. Got records above us just to
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prove that we like records and to remind
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people what sort of podcast we have. I'm
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in the same old room. Bit jealous of
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your sofa. We sat in front of the sofa.
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Saw you on the sofa and I'm like, what
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am I doing? Why am I sitting? I don't
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have a coffee table. You need a coffee
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table. The possibilities after that are
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endless. I'm excited to be doing another
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episode as always. We have got a little
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bit of rambling to do, maybe some
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records,
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and we're going to be chatting a little
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bit about our journey through postponing
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our streaming service subscriptions and
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how we're getting on with that. I
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haven't got a lot of good news if I'm
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honest. Oh no, I'm really disappointed
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myself. But yeah, it's all good. It's
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week two. There's always going to be
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setbacks in this journey to sobriety.
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So, what's new then, Bill? How's your
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week been? And how's music influenced
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your week or been involved in your week?
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Yeah, man. I had a good weekend. I got
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some records out. I was listening to
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some music. I had a good experience with
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that. I think I mentioned at the end of
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the last episode that I would be going
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to look on the search for some records
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and did get one. Uh I got a very
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fitting. So I got myself I went to the
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store with the intention of finding
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either an early Black Sabbath album or a
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jazz record featuring Alvin Jones on
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drums. So probably a John called Train.
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And I went to our old friend the at the
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Mercury store if you remember him. The
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kitchen sink guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I
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didn't know he does good records. Yeah.
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No, to be fair, he's got quite a good
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collection of classic rock, you know.
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He's got a section dedicated to Beatles,
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section dedicated to Elvis section, but
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yeah, a good corner for classic rock.
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He's got a load of classical records,
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which I guess kind of look a bit
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untouched. They're a bit hard to like
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browse through. I think that they just
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kind of accumulated and not really been
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sold as much. I'm not surprised with
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that. It's weird classical records and
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is it cuz classical records there is a
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market for it and some of them are
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really valuable. Yeah. No, of course. I
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just wonder if the culture of record
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collecting exists with that audience. I
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don't know the way in which the culture
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has evolved in music or music that we
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know today.
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For the most part, the path that records
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have taken in terms of collecting them,
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going to the store, buying your favorite
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band's new album and their promotion
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towards that and their brand in a way,
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isn't it? Each band and artist kind of
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has their own individual brand that's
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assigned to the records that get
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released. But in classical music, that
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doesn't exist. If I was Yeah. If I
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reckon there was an abundance of
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classical records in the heyday of vinyl
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printing and pressing, you know, when
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vinyl records was the only way to
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consume music, you know, I can imagine
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there would have been a lot of vinyl for
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classic being pressed at the time,
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especially for like older audiences. And
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then probably as classical music is less
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popular than more contemporary styles of
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music these days. Yeah, the demand for
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the classical record isn't as high as
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the amount of records that exist in the
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world. I'd agree with that. I've never
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thought of it. We'll look into that.
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Yeah, I'm sure there is a a niche fan
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base for it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, for
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good reason. Cuz it's far out of our
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sort of expertise. Yeah, I think it's
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something maybe that could be our next
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challenge. Something along the lines of
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a classical record that we love.
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challenge to actually do a bit of
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research about it and kind of think
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about the composers we might be into and
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then see if we can find the record. You
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could play the same game that we play
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with the records we know with that
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because what was the only thing that
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I've dabbled with in the last year is
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that Riza album remember mentioned how
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he wrote a ballet and then went on tour
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with it and then brought out a record
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that was just completely classical.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed that and it kind
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of did feel some sort of movement from
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it. It's strange. It's like trying to
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understand a different language. It's
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probably just exposure and like yeah,
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you kind of need to develop an ear for
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it. Some of it probably resonates quite
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naturally, but compared to sitting down
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and listening to a 3minut pop song, it's
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going to kind of probably spark faster
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dopamine hit maybe than listening to a
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half hour symphony or whatever. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's just been
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shunned from the modern day society for
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it to be acceptable. It's almost like
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it's not a genre. It's a complete
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alternate thing. I've met people that
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are into classical and who would
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identify. I mean, for example, there
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were some musicians at the Birmingham
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Conservator who were in the orchestra
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there, so they were obviously into their
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classical. The guy who first started
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teaching me drums, he loved rock music,
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but he also love classical music. It
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actually seemed maybe more animated when
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talking about classical pieces than and
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if you've ever like not long ago I went
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with a friend to a theater like we kind
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of just booked a ticket cuz we were in
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the town that day just cuz it was an old
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theater and it be nice architecture and
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just you know something to do like while
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away and there was you know a recital
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there. It's a big theater full of people
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so it does exist. We just aren't in
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those bubbles. That's it, man. And I
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think we should be. It's shameful to say
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that I don't know enough about classical
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music, but I don't think I'm alone. And
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yeah, maybe something to venture into,
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look into. Maybe we can do a hear me out
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classical special. That's a great idea.
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That's an amazing idea. Right. Okay.
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That's coming soon. Wicked. In fact, I'm
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going to scrap everything else I'm
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doing. Okay. So, you went to what was it
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called again? Mercury stores. Went up to
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the guy like, "Can I see the records?"
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Kitchen sink. No. And then he walked
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towards the back and looked to He's
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like, "Have you been here before?" I was
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like, "Yep." He's okay. But he didn't
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give me an introduction or tour last
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time. So, I've still missed out on that.
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I feel like the first time you went, he
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didn't say, "Have you been here before?"
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No. He just let me in. You didn't say,
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"Here's the sink." No, he didn't show me
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anything. [ __ ] But yeah, so I was in
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there to look for either, like I said,
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Black Sabbath or Alvin Jones. I checked
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there and I did find Black Sabbath
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pretty fast actually. I was like, okay,
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wicked. Okay, let me just see if I can
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find Oven Jones. Anyway, I was having a
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look around trying to find the jazz
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section and I was like, where is it? And
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I didn't look next to the kitchen sink
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at first cuz I remembered last time that
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had been where the singles were. But lo
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and behold, You finally look next to the
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sink and there was the jazz records. So,
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he's done a re reorganization.
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Yeah, he's put the goodies next to the
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sink. I didn't find any lab singles this
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time.
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One for you. One for me. I'm surprised
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you such a good I I did find a John Paul
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train record there and it did have Elvin
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Jones on it, but it was just three
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tracks and it was two live recordings
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which Elvin Jones wasn't on. Yeah. And
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and then one studio track with Alvin
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Jones and that was like €40 or
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something. And I thought, well,
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considering that I'm looking for an
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Alvin Jones record, maybe I'll look for
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it. Is it all new? Is it a used vinyl?
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Like vintage vinyl? Interesting. So,
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yeah, I know that those cold train
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records can go through a lot. You're
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telling me that the Black Sabbath record
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you have is an early pressing. It is.
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Yes. So, this is a repressing, but from
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1976.
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Decent. I think the original came out in
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71.
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I wanted to get it in the 70s. That's
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incredible, man. That's really cool.
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It's really good. Yeah, it's really
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nice. The disc is like there's no
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scratches or marks or anything. There
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was maybe a bit of damp on it or a bit
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of moisture on it. That's all right.
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Gives it character. I cleaned it and
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it's all good. So, nice. Let's have a
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look. Is it on? Oh, it's on NEMS, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I didn't
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know much about NEMS before. Oh, I
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looked it up afterwards. Um, they
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repressed a bunch of stuff in the ' 70s
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and '8s on apparently cheaper vinyl.
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They did like budget releases. So, they
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weren't bust in the end, I think. Cuz
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remember when I showed my Masters of
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Reality one on the part that was on
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Nems, so it's the same sort of thing. I
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looked into it. I was like, "Yeah, it's
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like I forgot now." What? It was kind of
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like a now that's what I call like I
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don't know like is it? No, not really. I
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I I looked it up and apparently it was a
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label run by I forgot manager of the
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Beatles or something related to the
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Beatles. Oh yeah. No, but apparently
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there was like some kind of like
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licensing loopholes with the Sabbath
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material cuz
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uh yeah, I don't know. But they
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basically just took advantage of some
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situation where they were able to get
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the license for the early black sabo
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stuff and they repressed them on cheaper
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vinyls.
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Yeah, it's in good nick and the song was
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obviously just as good. So Brian
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Epstein, right? Beatles manager uh it
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was his company
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and came after his death which is really
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confusing me. Well, I guess the label
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was still running after he died. True.
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Yeah, I'm lucky enough. Is it all
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Sabbath? So, they must have found like a
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loophole for Sabbath records. I think
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Sabbath weren't well managed.
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I know that Don Arden was in involved.
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He did some dodgy dealings. Yeah, his
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dad. Yeah. After reading his biography,
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apparently they didn't even get any cash
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in the early days. if they ever wanted
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anything, they had to call him up and
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was like, "Can you just buy me a
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Ferrari, please?" And it was just like,
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"No way. No way." I'm seeing other
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records now, but it is a lot of metal as
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well. So maybe they found a loophole
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with like metal music. If anybody else
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knows more about it, let us know. But
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yeah, I think it is interesting that
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they managed to find a little bit of a
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loophole. Just to add, it is game fold
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as well though, so it is nice. Hey, look
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at that, man. Nice. But yeah, in the
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spirit of early classical rock, I just
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picked this one out of my collection and
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go this is spin as well. Nice classic.
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This is also Oh, look at that. And this
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one is actually pressed the year it came
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out. Is it Is it a plum label? No, it's
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Atlantic. Is it? Yeah, but is it the
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plum colored ones? No, it's green and
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yellow. Orange. Nice.
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I've seen some super rare ones that are
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like a plum label or something. Well,
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this is where the tool comes in. Yeah,
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it's the handy tool that Bill has gone
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ahead and used. Oh, wait. Hey, like you
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couldn't have picked a worse album to
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use the tool for. Why? You bought Black
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Sabbath by Black Sabbath. No, it worked
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for both of them. That's obviously the
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tool is the tool is very sophisticated.
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Yeah. Uh, I just typed in Black Sabbath.
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Black Sabbath. There was a Then I
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searched this record on the
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tool and then it says, "You want to
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share your screen?" Cuz I'm getting it
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wrong. It's not working. Couldn't find
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release. Did I spell it wrong? Me to
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have a go.
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Oh, there we go. Oh, wait. That's what I
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need to do. That's the Yeah, that's the
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the price for an original copy. And
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given that this came out in the same
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year, even though it's not an original
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pressing, I thought, "Oh, wow. Maybe
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this is worth something." But then when
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I actually looked up this pressing, it
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was like 30 quid. Yeah, I think that
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would be the one with those Plum Labels
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that I was talking about. There's I
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think there's a problem with this
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description as well. The entitled fourth
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studio album by the English rock group
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Led Zeppelin. The word is wrong.
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commonly known as Led Zeppelin 4. But
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also, this isn't the fourth studio
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album, is it? No, it's too was released
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in November. No, it's giving you the
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description for Led Zeppelin 4. Yep.
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Whoever owns this and runs this trusty
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tool, but we're going to inform them to
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kind of just work on that when I'm sure
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they will. In no time, I'm sure they're
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going to have it just sorted. It's just
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going to be fine. In the meantime, just
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check out site anyway. You might as
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well. Well, obviously it's it's fitting
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because it's a great album at the Black
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Sabbath album. Led Zeppelin 2 obviously
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is amazing as well. There was a
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documentary out this weekend in the
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cinemas becoming Led Zeppelin. I heard
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some friends go that went from the
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sounds of it. It was a good film. If
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you're a big Led Zeppelin nerd,
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apparently might not have a lot of stuff
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that you haven't already seen, but it's
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well made and enjoyable. Definitely go
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and check that out. I imagine they've
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got it going on at Mockingbird or
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something. Cinema, maybe. I don't know.
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Check it out. Check it out. With the
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Sabbath record, it's obviously fitting
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because of what's happened that we
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mentioned in the last episode, which is
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the last gig. at the time of recording
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this. By the time this comes out, it's
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probably going to be long gone since
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this being like news. But yeah, we've
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we're trying to get tickets. Currently
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not successful as uh most of the world
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cuz in high demand. I'm just hoping they
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do another date. Yeah, through popular
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demand. I wouldn't be surprised. The
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only question would be will it be
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possible for there to be another date?
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feel like it's he's dropping. It's
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demanding already. He's doing two sets.
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Sabbath. It's Oussie Osbor set and the
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Black Sabbath set. Really? His build
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does both on the poster.
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Yeah. And obviously he's really not
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doing good. He's in quite a debilitating
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condition. He's probably going to be sat
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down, but you know, you have to see him
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play. So what's more important? Yeah,
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this is it. No, obviously Aussie if
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you've only got the one gig in. Yeah,
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fair enough. But it's just a shame cuz
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it's on home soil, man. Anyway, there's
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still a chance we're going to try and
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nab some in general admission, which I'm
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pretty and pretty sad. There's a pretty
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sad tomorrow. So, yeah, we'll see what
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else has been going on. I've got some
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confessions to make about our journey in
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quitting Spotify. Forgive me, Billy, but
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I have sinned this week. What have you
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done? I was in the car and oddly enough,
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I was in the mood for some country
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music.
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Okay. So, I initially was like, well,
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not going to get my fix on the radio for
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that. It's quite niche. And, you know,
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there's not a country radio station in
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my car. So, I've opened Spotify and
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searched for an album, found one, and
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then I listened to it on Spotify.
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No, the album I was going to forgive.
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It felt like a drug that I hadn't took
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in ages. And then you got all that
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dopamine. I got so much dopamine off it.
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It was
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amazing. It was just what I wanted. It
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was Yeah. euphoric. But I want to make a
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point, right? I'm going to go back again
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to not doing it, but I want to make a
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point that it's about balance. It felt
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good to do that in the way that I did,
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but up until that point, it wasn't my
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main portal of enjoying music. So, with
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the right balance, I think you could
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enjoy the playlist on Spotify more. I
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found a lot of fulfillment from it, but
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in excess you don't. So everything in
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moderation, you know, it's like
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everything, isn't it? So it was kind of
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it was a lesson to realize that, but
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also equally I do feel bad and I'm going
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cold turkey again. I'm just going to
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maybe try I've got this trigger point.
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It's like when I go in the car or, you
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know, when I'm I'm going to try and get
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things set up so that that doesn't
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happen again because you kind of get the
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chance to appreciate it more because you
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haven't had it. Like if you hadn't had
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this experience of trying to avoid it
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and you just you probably wouldn't even
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remember that you had listened to
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country music on that car journey.
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Whereas now you had a euphoric
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experience with it, which is probably
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more than you can say for most car
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journey music listening experiences you
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had prior to the experiment. Yeah, good
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point, man. I think initially there was
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a weird euphor euphoria last week with
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picking the albums I was playing and
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there was different sense of euphoria
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with letting Spotify take the reigns a
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bit. Yeah. If Neil's different, I
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personally found that it was beneficial
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to dabble with both during that. But
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that's what this whole experiment is
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about, isn't it? Is stepping back and
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observing more what our habits are and
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all to have a more fulfilling experience
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from it and not just passively existing
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really in this space. I maybe have a bit
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of a confession as
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well. Here we go. See, I'm curious. it.
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Would this confession have come out if I
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weren't so honest just now and humble? I
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No, I'm sure it would have. I maybe
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haven't really considered it properly
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yet and I've kind of just ignored that
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it's really a cheat or whatever. I have
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an alarm. My morning alarm is basically
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just spot like my Alexa is just
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triggered to play
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Spotify and play this kind of comes on.
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I don't actually pay attention to it.
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What? It's It's like you're letting it
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completely take the reigns. You're not
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even conscious and then you are. And
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it's like, "Hello, Billy. Welcome to
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another day where I will control your
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listening experience." I'm going Black
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Mirror with it a little bit. But um no,
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cuz I found having a playlist being a
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great alarm in the morning, not as a
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music listening experience, but just as
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a way to wake up in the morning. No,
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fair enough, man. Rather than having a
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really aggressive [ __ ] wake up thing.
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Yeah, it's good to build. The playlist
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is just on a really low volume and it's
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more time to wake up. If I've gone to
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bed on time, then I wake up on time and
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I know it's time for waking up. Yeah,
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fair blame, man. I'm surprised it's
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still working, to be honest. I thought
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it would stop working after I cancel my
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subscription, but it just has just been
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working. Doesn't mean Have you managed
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that? Probably just because it's been
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set for so long like that. It's just
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forgot to check if it's logged in. Yeah,
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fair enough, man. Well, we've both seen
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this week. Mine is clearly
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worse, but we're working. If you listen
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to country music. Yeah. Couldn't you
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find a country radio station? Yes. I
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could have been rooting and tooting on a
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DAB radio station before you know it. I
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could have been just getting my country
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on guiltree.
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And I guess that raises the question of
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where did we draw the line? Because if
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you get to the point with digging out
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niche radio
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stations to like the playlist just to
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find a playlist. Oh, this one's a radio
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station, not a playlist. Even though
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it's just 20 24/7 country music with no
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talking. No, I think it's about choice
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of conversation. It's about connection
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between people and saying, "Look, I hope
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I found this. Give it a listen." I think
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it's detached a little bit, but there's
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no reason that you can't benefit from
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both. And I think that's what I'm
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starting to realize given the day and
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age that we're in. It's like you've
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literally got a pencil in a day to
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discover a new album. Cuz if you don't,
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then you won't. Well, I think part of
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the project would be each week we make
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an effort either to find a new
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album or to revisit an old favorite. So
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for me last week it was Black Sabbath. I
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didn't own it. So I went out and bought
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it. I did pay more for it than I think I
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should have though. Cost me
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€50 on the higher end. It is good Nick
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though. Things tend to be a bit more
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expensive on motor as well because we're
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fair enough. Small island in the middle
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of nowhere. And look at the moment, man.
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I mean, that thing is in demand. You
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could probably sell that. Swapping for
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some tickets.
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Everyone here is getting a ticket. I
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don't think you buy a beer at the
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stadium with that. Yeah, but I'm still
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happy boy. I think my budget for music
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for the rest of the month now is kind of
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like tough. Fair enough. But it's still
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a good choice, man. It's a great album
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and Yeah.
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So, okay. I guess that wraps it up. I
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think that's good. Yeah, we're going to
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continue our journey of trying our very
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best to consume more physical forms of
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media and going to keep you updated with
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consuming digital media as well. I've
00:23:06.159 --> 00:23:08.549
been listening to a lot of NTS and I'll
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find a song on the radio station I
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really like and then I'll Shazam it.
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I've never really huge, but now I am.
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And I guess that is a new way of music
00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:19.029
discovery to be fair. I much prefer
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doing that than, you know, just having a
00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:23.590
playlist on the background and then just
00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:25.430
thinking cuz you know what it is if it's
00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.470
on Spotify and I can find it. Oh, I like
00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:30.390
that song. I'll go ahead and find it.
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And then you get lost in the ether of
00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.110
the playlist. I kind of just add song
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like on Spotify. I would if I hear a
00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.510
song that I like, I would click add like
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add to liked songs, but then I just kind
00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:45.110
of had this list of liked songs that I
00:23:45.120 --> 00:23:47.190
didn't really know anything about, you
00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:48.870
know, maybe just heard it once or twice
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in passing and then forget the name of
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the artist or the song. Yeah. Don't
00:23:53.360 --> 00:23:56.630
develop that same bond with the music
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like I did with the albums that I got
00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.710
excited for before. Yeah. I think we've
00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:05.669
got an interesting challenge. Maybe we
00:24:05.679 --> 00:24:10.669
can do the record next week. Mhm. The
00:24:10.679 --> 00:24:13.510
classical hear the Alps. Yeah, let's do
00:24:13.520 --> 00:24:16.149
that. That'll be an excuse to dig out
00:24:16.159 --> 00:24:17.830
some venue.
00:24:17.840 --> 00:24:19.590
Yeah, I think I've got some in the loft
00:24:19.600 --> 00:24:21.190
actually. Failing that, I'm going to hit
00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.549
up a charity shop or if I can't find a
00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:26.390
actual record cuz I I just want to buy
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.830
one now that we're talking about it.
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We're just going to try and find an
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album that resonates with us. We're
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going to have to spend the whole week
00:24:33.360 --> 00:24:36.310
listening to classical music. No, we can
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do like a series like it's an evolution.
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See where we like this is week one and
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then maybe in a month or two we can do
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part two and see how classical evolution
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has come along. Mac counts as classical,
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right? It's pretty much the same. Isn't
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that like Moar? Isn't Mo in Fleetwood
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Mac? He was Fleetwood. Mo Fleetwood was
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the drummer. Yeah, I think so. I think
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so. Yeah, he's on that. That's him.
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That's him. That's him before he was
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born. Mick Fleetwood's son. But anyway,
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tuned for more rambles next week and
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yeah, just a bit of fun. Anything else?
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No, I think that's good. It's been a
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pleasure as always. Catch you later. See
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you next week. See you next week.